relevant to what?

i like cassettes and USBs.

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gnangle wrote:what is the dont bother train?! what do you mean?

Bandcamp and cassettes may'n

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J. Burns wrote:I think 15-20ish years ago MP3.com and CDBaby were doing almost exactly this. Can confirm; I worked at CDBaby around that time.*As much as I love it as a listener, I will grant (admit?) that vinyl is usually bourgeois**. Sadly, I do also think that's relevant for the segment of the population not covered by FM Mason's answer.* - There were several other companies doing something similar, including one dude at MIDEM with a booth where he was directly cutting your wav file to a single 12 side with a computer-controlled lathe for like $25 in about 15 minutes, to illustrate how easily he could start an on-demand vinyl press. I expected the records to sound horrible, but they were surprisingly pretty middling.** - see Dead Moon for the counterexample that motivated my use of usually

I hate cassettes. If your album is only on cassette I almost certainly won't be hearing it unless you're Fugazi or something. CD, sure. Vinyl, yes please. Bandcamp, spotify, soundcloud, youtube etc.. all fine. I don't think I've ever downloaded an album so I'd say for me, that's probably the worst but I do understand it's appeal.

Not even bothering.